Patents Examined by B. Lee
  • Patent number: 11295684
    Abstract: A pixel driving method is provided. The method includes: acquiring pixel signals of sub-pixels of each color of each unit pixel in a pixel block, where the unit pixel includes a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel and a blue sub-pixel; and loading first-type gray-scale signals to a part of same-color sub-pixels in the pixel block and loading second-type gray-scale signals that are not equal to the first-type gray-scale signals to the remaining same-color sub-pixels based on a preset rule according to the pixel signals of the sub-pixels of each color, signal determination intervals and a proportion standard value corresponding to each of the signal determination intervals, thus improving the graininess of the pixel block during display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Chih Tsung Kang
  • Patent number: 11295659
    Abstract: Display device includes a scan driver to receive a scan start signal and to supply scan signals of a turn-on level to scan lines in response to the scan start signal; a data driver to receive grayscale values and to supply data voltages corresponding to the grayscale values and a reference data voltage to data lines; pixels connected to the scan lines and the data lines, the pixels including display target pixels configured to receive the data voltages and at least one sensing target pixel configured to receive the reference data voltage; and a scan start signal adjusting unit to detect the display target pixels among the pixels using the grayscale values and to adjust a phase of the scan start signal when at least one of the display target pixels comprises a sensing target pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suk Hun Lee, So Hee Park, Chae Hee Park, Hyun Jun Lim, Jun Woo Son, Eun Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 11295694
    Abstract: A display device, comprising: a power supply chip configured to output a gate-on voltage; a gamma chip configured to output a gamma voltage; a detection resistor having a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal is grounded; a display panel comprising a plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of driving transistors, and at least one detection transistor; a control circuit electrically connected to the second terminal of the detection resistor, and configured to control the gamma chip to increase the output of the gamma voltage when a voltage of the detection resistor decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignees: CHONGQING HKC OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Mingliang Wang
  • Patent number: 11287916
    Abstract: A display panel with a touch detection function, in which display operation is less affected by touch detection operation, a method of driving the display panel with a touch detection function, a driving circuit, and an electronic unit having the display panel with a touch detection function are disclosed. The display panel with a touch detection function includes: one or more display elements; one or more drive electrodes; one or more touch detection electrodes; and a drive section selectively applying a DC drive signal or an AC drive signal to the drive electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Yoshitoshi Kida, Koji Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11274943
    Abstract: A detection apparatus includes a substrate, a display area, a peripheral area, a plurality of electrodes, a plurality of terminals, a first wire, and a second wire. The display area is provided on the surface of the substrate. The peripheral area is provided outside the display area. The electrodes are provided to the display area. The terminals are provided in correspondence with the respective electrodes in the peripheral area. The first wire couples an electrode to a terminal. The second wire couples the electrode to the terminal to which the first wire is coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa
  • Patent number: 11269509
    Abstract: A force sensing system for determining if a user input has occurred, the system comprising: an input channel, to receive an input from at least one force sensor; an activity detection stage, to monitor an activity level of the input from the at least one force sensor and, responsive to an activity level which may be indicative of a user input being reached, to generate an indication that an activity has occurred at the force sensor; and an event detection stage to receive said indication, and to determine if a user input has occurred based on the received input from the at least one force sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Hamid Sepehr, Pablo Peso Parada, Willem Zwart, Tom Birchall, Michael Allen Kost, Tejasvi Das, Siddharth Maru, Matthew Beardsworth, Bruce E. Duewer
  • Patent number: 11270654
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, a display panel, and a method for driving a pixel circuit are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a driving circuit, a data writing circuit, and a first light-emitting control circuit. The driving circuit is configured to control a driving current for driving a light-emitting component to emit light, the data writing circuit is configured to write a data signal into the driving circuit in response to a scanning signal, the first light-emitting control circuit is configured to apply a first voltage of a first voltage terminal to the driving circuit in response to a first light-emitting control signal, and the first light-emitting control signal and the scanning signal are provided by a same gate driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhichong Wang
  • Patent number: 11260287
    Abstract: An information processing device obtains information regarding the position of each fingertip of a user in a real space, and determines contact between a virtual object set within a virtual space and a finger of the user. The information processing device sets the virtual object in a partly deformed state such that a part of the virtual object, the part corresponding to the position of the finger determined to be in contact with the object among the fingers of the user, is located more to a far side from a user side than the finger, and displays the virtual object having the shape set thereto as an image in the virtual space on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Ohashi
  • Patent number: 11250758
    Abstract: The present application discloses a gate driver circuit, a driving method and a display device. The driving method for the gate driver circuit includes steps of receiving a first clock signal and a second clock signal and generating a plurality of first gate drive signals and a plurality of second gate drive signals based on the first clock signal and the second clock signal to drive a plurality of scanning lines, wherein the plurality of scanning lines are grouped in pairs, and the first gate drive signals and the second gate drive signals drive the two scanning lines in each group for scanning charge in a sequential or non-sequential manner; and outputting data driving signals to drive a display panel, where corresponding to the same data line, data driving signals of pixels corresponding to the same group of scanning lines have the same polarity, and data driving signals of pixels corresponding to two adjacent groups of turned-on scanning lines have opposite polarities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Dongsheng Guo, Haijiang Yuan, Yubo Gu
  • Patent number: 11250797
    Abstract: This application discloses a method for driving a display panel and a display panel, the driving method including steps of: inputting a frame of image; obtaining a signal of the frame of image progressively scanned by the display panel; selecting each row of pixels in the frame of image by using a multiple of 2 as an interval, and calculating a color saturation level of each of the selected pixels at intervals to form a color saturation value; determining a chromatic aberration level of the frame of image according to the color saturation value; adjusting a gamma curve value according to the chromatic aberration level of the frame of image; and driving the display panel by using the adjusted gamma curve value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Chia-Hang Lee
  • Patent number: 11243399
    Abstract: This document relates to head mounted display devices. In one example the head mounted display device includes a light engine including an array of individually controllable pixels that can be energized to emit light. The example also includes an optical assembly physically aligned with the light engine and including a set of focusing elements facing toward the light engine and a different set of focusing elements facing away from the light engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Georgiou, Alfonsus D. Lunardhi, Joel Steven Kollin, Bernard C. Kress, Ishan Chatterjee, Mario Possiwan
  • Patent number: 11244617
    Abstract: A driving method applicable to a display device, in which the display device includes multiple pixel circuits, and the method includes: adjusting multiple control signals according to a first display data such that the pixel circuits generate a first frame; receiving a second display data generated after the display data; and adjusting the control signals according to a time duration of the first frame such that the pixel circuits generate a second frame, where brightness for each of the pixel circuits is proportional to a duty ratio of one of the corresponding control signals, and an increment for the duty ratio of one of the corresponding control signals in the second frame is negatively correlated to a difference between a ratio of a preset time period to the time duration of the first frame and a ratio of the preset time period to the time duration of the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peng-Bo Xi, Chen-Chi Lin, Chia-Che Hung, Cheng-Nan Yeh, Chin-Tang Chuang, En-Chih Liu
  • Patent number: 11237798
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for presenting information and performing a task using an electronic device. In an aspect, a device shows content items when a gaze is detected. In another aspect, a device shows content items when a tap and a gaze are detected. In other aspects, a device performs a task when a name, a code, and the task are detected, a gaze and the task are detected, or the task is received from another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Inventor: Chian Chiu Li
  • Patent number: 11237592
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display device, and more particularly, to a display device in which the number of data link lines or touch lines can be increased in a bent area or a folded area of a display panel. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, it is possible to provide a display device in which the number of data link lines or touch lines can be increased in a bent area or a folded area of a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruda Rhe, SuChang An
  • Patent number: 11231749
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (100) for a portable user apparatus (102), including a portion (104) which can be folded over the user apparatus (102), said foldable portion (104) including at least two detection layers, each kept at a reserve potential and including at least one capacitive detection electrode: a first of said layers being arranged to carry out a function of capacitive detection of at least one control object located on one side of said foldable portion (104); a second of said layers being arranged so as to carry out a function of capacitive detection of at least one control object located on the other side of said foldable portion (104), with a view to triggering a function in the user apparatus (102). The invention also relates to an apparatus (10) provided with such an accessory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Quickstep Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Didier Roziere
  • Patent number: 11232756
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display device having a plurality of pixels is disclosed. Each pixel includes a driving transistor having a gate connected to a first node, a source connected to a third node, and a drain connected to a fourth node, to generate pixel current corresponding to a data voltage when a high-level source voltage is applied to the third node, a light emitting element connected between the fourth node and an input terminal for a low-level source voltage, an internal compensator including first and second capacitors, and switching transistors, and a kick-back compensation transistor to apply a DC voltage higher than an initialization voltage to the first node in a kick-back compensation period between an initialization period and a data writing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung-Uk Jang, Chul Nam, Byeong-Seong So, Young-Sung Cho
  • Patent number: 11226660
    Abstract: A multiple mode display apparatus and methods of use. An apparatus includes a display surface with a first and a second display area. A housing pivotally attached with the display proximate a first edge of the housing is displaceable from a coplanar position with the surface of the display device to a position wherein an angle of at least 90 degrees between the surface of the display and the housing is formed along said first edge. In the first position, the first display area is visible and activated to receive user input or to display output. The second display area is covered by the housing and placed in a mode of reduced power consumption. In the second position, the second display area is visible and activated to display output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Nicholas W. Oakley
  • Patent number: 11221752
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a device performs character recognition based on spatial and temporal components of touch input detected on a touch-sensitive surface. In some embodiments, a device provides feedback about handwritten input and its recognition by the device. In some embodiments, a device presents a user interface for changing previously-inputted characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joe Howard, Ryan S. Dixon, Joshua McGlinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, William M. Bachman, Elbert D. Chen, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Jennifer L. C. Folse, Lynne Kress
  • Patent number: 11222610
    Abstract: A protection circuit (10), a power supply circuit, and a display panel. The protection circuit (10) comprises a feedback circuit (100) and a current adjusting circuit (200). The reaction circuit (100) is used for receiving a supply voltage, adjust the first general resistance thereof according to the temperature of a data drive chip, and generate a reaction voltage according to the supply voltage and the adjusted first resistance. The current adjusting circuit (200) is used for receiving the supply voltage and the reaction voltage, and generate and output a driving current according to the reaction voltage and the supply voltage, the driving current decreasing following a rise in the temperature of the data drive chip; when the driving current is reduced, the thermal energy power consumption of the data drive chip is reduced so as to prevent burnout due to the temperature at the interior thereof being too high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Liang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11216072
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a signal generation unit, a first determination unit, and a second determination unit. The signal generation unit processes an output of a sensor unit attached to a detection target, and generates a trigger signal at a time when a state change of the detection target is detected. The first determination unit is brought out of hibernation and activated when receiving the trigger signal, determines the state change of the detection target from the output of the sensor unit by a first determination criterion, and outputs a determination impossibility signal in a case where the determination is impossible. The second determination unit is brought out of hibernation and activated when receiving the determination impossibility signal, and determines the state change of the detection target from the output of the sensor unit by a second determination criterion different from the first determination criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kei Takahashi